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Man stabbed to death over business feud in Dhaka

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A man has been stabbed to death over a suspected feud tied to cable TV business in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. The murder occurred in the Chan Miah Housing area around 1:00am on Thursday, said Mohamm...

Cambodia making strategy to get Bangladesh rice order

FE Report

The Cambodian apex rice industry body has been meeting this week to discuss ways of nailing down a potentially massive deal with Bangladesh, which earlier this month inked a memorandum of understandin...

Wanted 'drug pedlar' held in Chandpur

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Police arrested an alleged drug pedlar along with Yaba tablets and Phensedyl from his residence at Toraghar in Hajiganj municipality area of Chandpur district early Thursday. Tipped off, a team of p...

Should business ideas be shared or concealed?

Tahmid Phils

Entrepreneurs do get into the dilemma with the precious business idea generated to be shared or locked up; not within others' reach. From spiritual perspective, the rationale can be argued on the poin...

Inland waterways-borne sub-regional trade - a work in progress

Asjadul Kibria

Consolidation of the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) sub-regional cooperation has been under process for the last couple of years. The Motor Vehicle Agreement (MVA) signed by the four countries c...

'Hasina, Modi take Dhaka-Delhi ties into new level'

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Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have taken Dhaka-Delhi bilateral relations into a new level. The env...

Better infrastructure key to poverty reduction

Abdul Bayes

It is estimated that roughly two-thirds of households in Bangladesh have access to electricity. There is almost a consensus that rural roads, electricity and irrigation - rural infrastructure at large...

More plans to decongest Ctg port

Syful Islam

The government is set to approve more Inland Container Depots (ICDs) and Inland Container Terminals (ICTs) in the private sector to help ease acute congestion at the Chittagong port, officials said....

Project seeks addl fund, past targets are unmet

Talha Bin Habib

The rural development and cooperatives division has sought an additional Tk 7.50 billion for 'one house one firm' project in the current fiscal despite its poor performance, officials said. &nbsp...

Final draft to amend labour law by Nov

BSS

A tripartite committee formed to amend the Labour Act 2006 for protecting the rights of the country's workers will submit its preliminary draft in the current month while the final report in November....

Two die in clashes over Habiganj mosque committee

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Two villagers have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in clashes over the formation of a local mosque committee in Habiganj. The brawl occurred around 7am on Saturday at Bahubal Upazi...

DMCH starts surgery on Muktamoni for hemangioma

FE Report

Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, or DMCH, have begun the first surgery on Satkhira girl Muktamoni’s hemangioma tumour.   The 12-year-old was taken to the operating room at 8:20a...

BIMSTEC senior officials' meeting kicks off in Nepal

FE Report

KATHMANDU: The 18th session of the BIMSTEC Senior Officials' Meeting kicked off here Thursday.  The two-day meeting will set the agenda for the 15th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting scheduled for Aug...

4032 students receive DBBL scholarship

FE Report

Dutch-Bangla Bank Saturday awarded scholarship to 4,032 students who passed SSC and equivalent examinations in 2017 and are now studying at higher secondary level in different colleges of the country...

Quasi-fiscal activities breed budgetary, fiscal distortions

Jasim Uddin Haroon

There exist numerous quasi-fiscal activities in the country which adversely impact the budget, sometimes creating financial distortions. Experts believe such factors also affect profitability of the...

HC defers N’ganj 7-murder verdict

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The High Court has deferred its verdict on the Narayanganj 7-murder case until Aug 22. Though the decision was to be announced on Aug 13, the bench of Justices Bhabani Prasad Singha and Mustafa Zaman...

BSRM Steels recommends 15pc cash div

FE Online Report

The board of directors of BSRM Steels has recommended 15 per cent final cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Sunday. However, the total cash dividend for...

Dozen Bangladeshis cheated in Singapore

FE Online Report

A Bangladeshi-owned company has reportedly cheated at least a dozen Bangladeshi construction workers out of their salaries in Singapore.  They are now in limbo in the Southeast Asian country ove...

Unplanned development works add to woes of city dwellers

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Unplanned development works have made all the indicators negative as it is evident in an average speed of vehicles, architects and town planners observed. Terming Dhaka city 'an ICU patient', they s...

Alert as Teesta Barrage road breaches

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Eight people were dead and five others went missing on Sunday as the overall flood situation has worsened in the country's northwestern and northeastern regions.   However, according to a TV ch...

Fires in garment factories: Role of an emergency action plan

Rana Dutta

The ready-made garment (RMG) sector in the country is still haunted by safety issues. Enough emphasis has been given on those issues, but fire tragedies take place in the garment factories quite often...

Extradite Noor Chowdhury, PM asks Canada

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the Canadian government to extradite Noor Chowdhury, one of the self- proclaimed killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "One...

Bangladesh ship building industry earns $150m in 5 years

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The ship building industry of the country earned $ 150 million of foreign exchange in last five years by exporting 40 ships to different countries. This was informed by managing director of Western...

More foodgrain imports to face flood challenge: PM

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina again said on Sunday the government is importing foodgrains to face the ongoing flood across the country, report agencies. "We've already procured foodgrains from variou...

80pc work on ninth wage board completed: Inu

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Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, on Sunday, said that 80 per cent work on ninth wage board for journalists have been completed.  He said this while inaugurating a week-long digital photogr...

Dhaka, Delhi express hope to reap BIMSTEC benefits

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BIMSTEC, a regional bloc comprising seven member states, is getting a 'big boost' with both Bangladesh and India expecting that it will soon start yielding results to fulfil the aspirations of the peo...

Indigenous man ‘hangs himself’

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An indigenous man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at Paruliya village in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Ratan Chandra, 40, son of Moli...

Role of Judiciary in governance and the Social Contract

Safwan Rob

Will of the people in Bangladesh is continually being ignored. The 'flawed' election of January 05, 2014 has otherwise been a major weakness of the government on this count. This "might" have been for...

Heavy rainfall likely in two divisions

UNB

Heavy (44-88mm) to very heavy (89mm or more) rainfall is likely to occur at places over Sylhet and Chittagong divisions during next 24 hours beginning at 10:00am on Monday. Due to heavy and very heav...

Two die in Narsingdi road mishap

FE Report

A microbus driver and a passenger were killed and six other people were injured as a vehicle hit it on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bakulnagar area of Raipura upazila in Narsingdi district on Monday mornin...